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PURROSE OF THE M.A. HONOURS AND THE

M.A. HONOURS WITH RESEARCH PROGRAMME

The purpose of the TWO programmes it to

train students to be independent and rigorous researchers of

literature

expose them to a cutting ‐edge curriculum which is on par

with the best offered in reputed national and international

universities.

develop an interdisciplinary vision by integrating literature

with other social sciences and anchoring its study in

social/political contexts.

acquaint them with innovative teaching pedagogy which is

student‐centric.

Introduce them to the latest developments and trends in the

field

Train them to make effective classroom

presentations/seminars and creatively and critically engage in

classroom discussions

Train them to write guided/independent research papers

assignments that are publications‐worthy

To train them to become innovative and committed teachers

of literature in a global scenario teachers

To train them for allied industries such as publishing, media

and translation

Create a vibrant, democratic and rigorous academic culture

that is relevant to our contemporary realities.

PART I

M.A. Honours

&

M.A. Honours (Research)

(2013‐2014)

PAPER I: Semester I

POST‐INDEPENDENCE INDIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH

(6 Credits – 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)

Objectives

To enable students to comprehend the sociopolitical backdrop to post‐independence Indian

Literature and read English Fiction, written by Indians located mainly in India as opposed to NRIs

or Diasporics, against the backdrop of political, caste, gender and religious issues.

To understand the linguistic policies and emergence of English as a link language in India, a

global language of communication and the rise of the Indian Novel in English

To understand the postmodernist and postcolonial linguistic and formal innovations in the

Indian Novel in English.

Background and Texts for Detailed Study

UNIT I – Background Themes and Issues:

• The Socio‐Political and Linguistic Scenario: The influence on Literature of Nehruvian Socialism;

Caste Reforms; Gender Reforms; linguistic policies in India; The Politics of Language in Independent

India; English as a Link Language in India; English as a global language;

• Postmodernist and Postcolonial Literary Innovations: Impact on Indian Literature in English of

magic realism; postcolonial re‐possessions/re‐writings of history, Indian, folk and non‐Western

literary modes, e.g. the Scherezadic and the Indian classical/folk narrative style; debates on

cosmopolitanism and nativism; Cultural hybridiy and Multiculturalism ; Linguistic innovations.

UNIT 2– Anita Desai: Fasting Feasting

UNIT 3 – Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

UNIT4 – Kiran Nagarkar: Cuckold

Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion:

1. Mulk Raj Anand: Across the Black Waters

2. R.K. Narayan: The World of Nagaraj

3. Shashi Deshpande: In the Country of Deceit

4. Kushwant Singh: The Train to Pakistan

5. Nayantara Sahgal: Lesser Breeds

6. Geeta Hariharan: Fugitive Histories

7. Amit Chaudhary: The Immortals

8. Cyrus Mistry: Corpse Bearer

9. Shashi Tharoor: The Great Indian Novel

10. Anita Nair: Ladies Coupe

11. Kiran Nagarkar : God’s Little Soldier

12. Upamanyu Chatterjee: The Last Burden

Recommended Reading

1. M.K. Naik, A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, 1982

2. M.K. Naik, Aspects of Indian Writing in English, Macmillan, Delhi 1979

3. William Walsh, Indo‐Anglian Literature 1800‐1970: A Survey, Orient Longman, Madras, 1976

4. Viney Kirpal, The New Indian Novel in English, Allied Publishers, Delhi, 1990

5. Viney Kirpal (ed.), The Postmodern Indian English Novel, Allied Publishers, 1996

6. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vilas Sarang (eds.), Indian English Fiction 1980‐90: AnAssessment, B.R.

Publishers, Delhi, 1994

7. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vrinda Nabar (eds.), Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian

Literature in English, Essays in Honour of Nissim Ezekiel, Vision Books, Delhi, 1998

8. Jasbir Jain and Amina Amin (eds.), Margins of Erasure: Purdah in the Subcontinental Novel in

English, Sterling, Delhi, 1995

9. Malashri Lal, The Law of the Threshold, Women Writers in Indian English, Indian Institute of

Advanced Study, 1995

10. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, Oxford University

Press, Delhi, 1985

11. Viney Kirpal, The Third World Novel of Expatriation, Sterling, Delhi, 1989

12. Tabish Khair, Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels, Oxford University Press, India,

2005

13. Krishnaswamy and Archana S. Burde, The Politics of Indian’s English: LinguisticColonialism and

the Expanding English Empire, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998

14. Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan (ed.), The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India, Oxford

University Press, Delhi, 1983

Evaluation Pattern

External Assessment (60 marks)

UNIT 1 ‐ Background Themes and Issues

UNIT 2– Anita Desai: Fasting Feasting

UNIT 3 – Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

UNIT4 – Kiran Nagarkar : Cuckold

Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours.

Internal Assessment (40 marks) on texts listed for internal assessment

20 marks – Written Assignment

10 marks – Classroom Presentation

10 marks – Regularity and Participation in Discussions

As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in

the time table of the Department.

PAPER II: Semester II

POST‐INDEPENDENCE INDIAN DRAMA AND POETRY IN ENGLISH

(6 Credits. 30 Teaching and 10 Testing Hours)

Objectives

To enable students to comprehend Post‐Independence Indian Drama and Poetry in English

against the changing social and ethical values in Indian society

To enable students to comprehend the history and sociopolitical background to Indian

theatre and Poetry in English

To enable students to understand concepts of cultural hybridity and multiculturalism


UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues:

• Liberalisation and Globalisation: The impact on Indian Drama and Poetry in English of economic

and social changes; the Globalisation of Indian culture; changes in social and ethical values;

Influence of Feminism and rise of Dalit power; the expansion of the Indian Diaspora; communal

violence; national and international terrorism.

• Indian Theatre and Poetry in English: The history of postcolonial Indian theatre in English; the

problems of finance and audience; the issue of authenticity of voice and accent; influence of

Western and Indian Classical theatres; canonization of Indian Drama in English. The History of

postcolonial Indian Poetry in English; the influences Indian and Western on Indian Poetry in English;

Cultural Hybridity and Multiculturalism in Indian Theatre and Poetry in English; Cosmopolitanism

and Nativism in Indian Theatre and Poetry in English

UNIT 2 – Mahesh Dattani: Brief Candle

UNIT 3‐ Girish Karnad: A Heap of Broken Images

UNIT4 ‐ Selections of poems written by Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moares, Keki Daruwala, A.K. Ramanujan,

Kamala Das, Eunice De Souza, Imtiaz Dharker, Dilip Chitre, Gieve Patel, Meena Alexander and

Arun Kolatkar


1. Makhija Anju: If Wishes Were Horses

2. Cyrus Mistry: Doongaji House

3. Dina Mehta: Brides are not for Burning

4. Mahesh Dattani: Tara

5. Gurcharan Das: Larins Sahib

6. Pratap Sharma: A Touch of Brightness

7. Pratap Sharma: Begum Sumroo

8. Gieve Patel: Mr. Behram

9. Asif Currimbhoy: Goa

10. Manjula Padmanabhan: Harvest

11. Nissim Ezekiel: Nalini

12. Post‐independence Indian Poets in English (not included for detailed study)

Recommended Reading

1. Paul C. Verghese, Essays on Indian Writing in English, N.V. Pubs., New Delhi, 1975

2. Nilufer E. Bharucha and Vrinda Nabar (eds.), Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial

Indian Literature in English, Essays in Honour of Nissim Ezekiel, Vision Books, Delhi, 1998

3. G.N. Devy, After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism, Orient

Longman, Bombay, 1993

4. Ashis Nandy, S. Trivedy, S. Mayaram and A. Yagnik, Creating a Nationality

5. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997

6. Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian, Penguin, 2006

7. Bruce King, Modern Indian Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987

8. E.N. Lal, The Poetry of Encounter: Dom Moraes, A.K. Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel, New

Delhi, 1983

9. Kapil Kapoor& A.K. Singh, Indian Knowledge Systems Vol. 1 & 2, Indian Institute of

Advanced Study, Shimla, 2005

10. Sharma Ram: A History of Indian Drama in English, Sunoasis Writers Network, 2010

11. Chakravarty K.: Indian Drama in English, 2010

12. Rajeswaran Sridhar: Kamala Das, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 323, South

Asian Writers in English, Ed. Fakrul Alam, Brucoli Clark Layman, USA, 2006N.

13. Rajeswaran Sridhar: ‘ Girish Karnad’, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 323, South

Asian Writers in English, Ed. Fakrul Alam, Brucoli Clark Layman, USA, 2006

14. Rajeswaran Sridhar, ‘GirishKarnad: Tying Beginnings to Ends’, Contemporary Indian

Drama: Astride Two Traditions, Editors: UrmilTalwar and Bandana Chakrabarty, Rawat

Publishers, Jaipur, 2005.

15. Bharucha Nilufer and Srihar Rajeswaran, ‘Whither Indian Drama?: The Politics of

Performatives, Performance and Performance Spaces’, (Dis)Continuities: Trends and

Traditions, CDE, (Contemporary Theatre and Drama), ed. Elke Mettinger, Vol. IX, May

2002, Vienna.

16. Vasant Shahane and Shivaram Krishnan (eds.), Indian Poetry in English: A

CriticalAssessment, Macmillan, Madras, 1982

Evaluation Pattern


1) UNIT 1 ‐ Background Themes and Issues

2) UNIT 2 – Mahesh Dattani: Brief Candle

3) UNIT 3‐ Girish Karnad: A Heap of Broken Images

4) UNIT 4 ‐ Selections of poems written by Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moares, Keki Daruwala, A.K.

Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Eunice De Souza, Imtiaz Dharker, Dilip Chitre, Gieve Patel, Meena

Alexander and Arun Kolatkar








Paper III: Semester I LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM I


Objectives

To enable students to map developments in literary theory since the mid‐twentieth century.

To understand the primacy accorded to language and to critically engage with poststructuralist

and deconstructive theories against the background of Saussurean linguistics

To interrogate the philosophy, politics and aesthetics of feminist, postmodern, postcolonial and

ethnicity studies

To understand meaning‐making processes in literary texts, and the specificity of discourses in

given genres

To explore new conceptions of historicity and textual/interpretive locations.

To enable the students to read literary and cultural texts through multiple perspectives

Texts for Detailed Study UNIT 1 Raymond Williams, “Hegemony; Traditions, Institutions and Formations; Dominant, Residual

and Emergent”. From Marxism and Literature UNIT 2 Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”

UNIT 3 Wolfgang Iser, “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach”

UNIT 4 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “What is a Minor Literature?”


1. Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator”

2. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”

3. Louis Althusser, “Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus”

4. Elaine Showalter, “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”

5. Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism, Chapter 1

6. Linda Hutcheon, “Historiographic Metafiction: Parody and the Intertextuality of History”

7. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind:

8. Edward Said, “Secular Criticism”

9. J. Hillis Miller, “The Critic as Host”

10. Stanley Fish, “Interpreting the Variorum”

11. Barbara Christian, “On the Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism”

Recommended Reading 1. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Bangalore, Prism Books, 1993.

2. Achebe, Chinua. “Home and Exile” ……..

3. Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2003.

4. Eagleton, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996.

5. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996.

6. Eagleton, Terry and Drew Milne. (ed) Marxist Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

7. Frye, Northrop. The Anatomy Of Criticism.

8. Genette, Gerard. “Structuralism and Literary Criticism”.

9. Jefferson, A. D. Robey (ed.) Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction, London:

Batsford, 1982.

10. Lentricchia, F. and Thomas McLaughlin (eds.) Critical Terms for Literary Study. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1995.

11. Lodge, David. (ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Longman: New York, 1988.

12. Lodge, David. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader. London: Longman, 1972.

13. Norris, Christopher. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London: Methuen, 1992.

14. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. London: Edward Arnold,

1989.

15. Tompkins, Jane P. Reader Response Criticism: From Formalism to Poststructuralism.

Evaluation Pattern


UNIT 1 Raymond Williams, “Hegemony; Traditions, Institutions and Formations; Dominant, Residual and Emergent”. From Marxism and Literature UNIT 2 Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences” UNIT 3 Wolfgang Iser, “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach” UNIT 4 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “What is a Minor Literature?” Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours.





As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.

Paper IV: Semester II LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM II


Objectives

To enable students to map developments in literary theory since the mid‐twentieth century.

To understand the primacy accorded to language and to critically engage with poststructuralist

and deconstructive theories against the background of Saussurean linguistics

To interrogate the philosophy, politics and aesthetics of feminist, postmodern, postcolonial and

ethnicity studies

To understand meaning‐making processes in literary texts, and the specificity of discourses in

given genres

To explore new conceptions of historicity and textual/interpretive locations.

To enable the students to read literary and cultural texts through multiple perspectives

Texts for Detailed Study

UNIT 1 Mikhail Bakhtin, “Carnival and Carnivalesque”. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Ed. John Storey.

UNIT 2 Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” UNIT 3 Stephen Greenblatt, “Resonance and Wonder” UNIT 4 Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”


1. Mikhail Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel”

2. Raymond Williams, “The Country and the City” (Excerpt from The Country and the City)

3. Loomba, Ania, “Tangled Histories: Indian feminism and Anglo‐American feminist Criricism”

4. Caruth, Cathy. “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History”

5. Love, Glen A. “Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism”

6. bell hooks, “Essentialism and Experience”

7. Balibar, Etienne & Pierre Macherey, “Literature as an Ideological Form”

8. Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “English in the Caribbean”

9. Lisa Lowe, “Hetrogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Difference”

10. Bali Sahota, “The Paradoxes of Dalit Cultural Politics”

11. Macherey, Pierre. From A Theory of Literary Production. Sections on “Explanation and

Interpretation”, “Implicit and Explicit” and “The Spoken and the Unspoken”

12. Bhabha Homi K. “Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism”

13. Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, “Planetarity”

Recommended Reading 1. Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Michael Holquist. Ed. Texas:

University of Texas Press. 2004.

2. Bhabha, Homi. K. The Location of Culture: New York: Routledge. 1994.

3. Colbrook, Claire. New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism.

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 1997.

4. Devy, G. N. Ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Hyderabad: Orient

Longman. 2002.

5. Gallagher, Catherine and Stephen Greenblatt. Practicing New Historicism. University of

Chicago Press. 2001.

6. Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. New Delhi: Oxford University

Press.

7. Habib, M. A. R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Oxon: Blackwell. 2008.

8. Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. New Delhi:

Sage. 2003.

9. Selden, Raman (ed.) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. 8. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1995

10. Selden, Raman. Ed. The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present. London: Longman,

1988.

11. Sethuraman, V. S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism: An Anthology. Madras: Macmillan, 1989.

12. Simon During. Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing. London & New

York: Routledge. 1992.

13. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Outside in the Teaching Machine. New York: Routledge 1993.

14. Sturrock, J. Ed. Structuralism and Since. Oxford: OUP, 1979.

15. Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford University

Press. 2006.

Evaluation Pattern


UNIT 1 Mikhail Bakhtin, “Carnival and Carnivalesque”. In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Ed. John Storey.

UNIT 2 Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”

UNIT 3 Stephen Greenblatt, “Resonance and Wonder”

UNIT 4 Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”


Internal Assessment (40 marks) on background or texts listed for internal assessment

20 marks – Written Assignment 10 marks – Classroom Presentation


As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is reflected in the time table of the Department.

PAPER V: Semester I GENDER IN LITERATURE


Objectives

• To enable students to ‘de‐naturalise’ gender

• To critically read the gender politics in canonical literature

• To arrive at an understanding of the interplay of gender, writing and genre

• To explore the subversive strategies in texts that interrogate hetero‐normative patriarchies

• To understand the need for new literary frameworks to accommodate the diversity in

contemporary literary production


UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues

Schools of Feminist Thought

Liberal, Radical, Marxist, Socialist, Psychoanalytical, Postmodern, Ecofeminist, ‘Third Wave’ Feminisms

Feminist Literary Theory

• Re‐reading and Revisioning the canon

• Gynocritics

• French Feminist Theorists/Critics

• Alternative, non‐canonical literary paradigms

UNIT 2 William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

UNIT 3 Rekhti Poetry;

Selections from women Bhakti poets

UNIT 4 Lorraine Hansberry, Raisins in the Sun


1. John Webster, The Duchess Of Malfi

2. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

3. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

4. Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

5. Selections from the poems of Emily Dickinson

6. Kate Chopin, The Awakening

7. Virginia Woolf, Orlando

8. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes are Watching God

9. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

10. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

11. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk

12. Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Recommended Reading

1. Auerbach, Nina. Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press, 1978.

2. Barrett, Michele. Women and Writing. London: Women’s Press, 1979.

3. de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage, 1974.

4. Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington:

Indiana University Press, 1978.

5. Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Gothic: The Woman Writer and the

Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1979.

6. Jacobus, Mary. Reading Women: Essays in Feminist Criticism. London: Methuen, 1986.

7. Loomba, Ania. Race, Gender and Renaissance Drama. New Delhi: Oxford India Paperbacks. 1992.

8. Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday. 1970.

9. Moers, Ellen. Literary Women: The Great Writers. New York: Doubleday. 1976.

10. Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966‐1979. New York and London:

Norton, 1979.

11. Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History. Delhi: Kali for

Women, 1989.

12. Sangari, Kumkum. The Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial

India. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999.

13. Sedgewick, Eve. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Columbia:

Columbia University Press. 1992.

14. Tharu, Susie and K. Lalitha. Ed. Women Writing in India Vols. I & II. New Delhi: Oxford University

Press, 1995.

15. Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace

Jovanovich, 1984.

Evaluation Pattern


Unit I Background Themes and Issues

Unit 2 William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Unit 3 Rekhti Poetry; Selections from women Bhakti poets

Unit 4 Lorraine Hansberry, Raisins in the Sun








PAPER VI: Semester II

GENDER IN LITERATURE II


Objectives

• To enable students to ‘de‐naturalise’ gender

• To critically read the gender politics in canonical literature

• To arrive at an understanding of the interplay of gender, writing and genre

• To explore the subversive strategies in texts that interrogate hetero‐normative patriarchies

• To understand the need for new literary frameworks to accommodate the diversity in

contemporary literary production

Background Themes and Prescribed Texts


• Critiques of mainstream feminisms; Feminisms in ‘other’ locations

• Masculinity Studies, Rethinking Masculinities

• Queer Theory, Alternative Sexualities

UNIT 2 – Toni Morrison, Paradise

UNIT 3 – Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

UNIT 4 – Indian short stories:

1. Manto, “Mozail”

2. Mahasweta Devi, “The Hunt”

3. Chughtai, “The Mole”

4. Lalitambika Antherjanam, “Goddess of Revenge”

5. Urmila Pawar, “Armour”


1. Selections from the poetry of Sylvia Plath

2. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

3. Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place

4. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

5. Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors

6. Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters

7. Hiromi Goto, The Chorus of Mushrooms

8. Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Doorframe

9. Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night

10. Mahesh Dattani, Thirty Days in September

11. Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy

12. Chimamanda Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

Recommended Reading

1. Abel, Elizabeth. Ed. Writing and Sexual Difference. Brighton: Harvester, 1982.

2. Ashton‐Jones, Evelyn, and Gary Olson. Ed. The Gender Reader. Boston and London: Allwyn and

Bacon, 1991.

3. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London and New York:

Routledge. 1990.

4. Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist literature and Social Change. Cambridge,

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.

5. Gallop, Jane. The Daughter’s Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell University

Press, 1982.

6. Grosz, Elizabeth. Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists. St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin,

1989.

7. Hite, Molly. The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist

Narratives. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

8. Humm, Maggie. Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary Critics. Brighton: Harvester, 1986.

9. Kahn, Coppelia and Gayle Greene. Ed. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism. New

York and London: Methuen, 1985.

10. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. London: Methuen, 1985.

11. Showalter, Elaine. Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. New

York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

12. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York and London:

Methuen, 1987.

13. Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari. Real and Imagined Women: gender, culture, postcoloniality. New York

and London: Routledge, 1993.

14. Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Westview Press. 1998.

15. Warhol, Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl. Ed. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and

Criticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1993.

Evaluation Pattern



UNIT 2 – Toni Morrison, Paradise

UNIT 3 – Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

UNIT 4 – Indian short stories:

o Manto, “Mozail”

o Mahasweta Devi, “The Hunt”

o Chughtai, “The Mole”

o Lalitambika Antherjanam, “Goddess of Revenge”

o Urmila Pawar, “Armour”








Paper VII ‐ Semester I

Nineteenth Century American Literature


Objectives

To acquaint the learners of literature with the literary concepts, trends and movements

of nineteenth century American Literature.

To introduce them to the socio‐cultural scene of nineteenth century America through

literary texts

To familiarize them to the themes and styles of nineteenth century American Literature

To enable them to write research‐oriented papers on American literature

Background Topics and Texts for Detailed Study

Unit 1: Topics for Background Study ‐Puritanism, Frontier Myth, Unitarianism and

Transcendentalism in theory and practice, Philosophy of self‐reliance, Evolution and

Pragmatism, American Romanticism, Nature in American Poetry, Nationalism on stage, the

genesis and growth of American Novel

Unit 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson , “Hamatreya”, “Each and All”, “Brahma” and

Walt Whitman “One’s‐ Self I Sing”, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”

Unit 3: Herman Melville: Billy Budd

Unit 4: Dion Boucicault : The Octoroon

Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion

1. Walt Whitman: poems from Leaves of Grass

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3. Henry David Thoreau – Walden

4. Harriet Jacobs ‐ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson ‐ “Nature” “Self‐Reliance”

6. Margaret Fuller ‐ Woman in the Nineteenth Century

7. Nathaniel Hawthorne ‐ Ethan Brand

8. Herman Melville: Moby Dick

9. Anna Cora Mowatt : Fashion

10. Emily Dickinson ‐Final Harvest

11. Louisa May Alcott ‐ Little Women

12. James Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans

Recommended Reading

1. Abel, Darrel. Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe: Critical Essays

in Honor of Darrel Abel. eds. G.R. Thompson and Virgil L. Lokke. West Lafayette:

Purdue UP, 1981.

2. Buell, Lawrence. Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American

Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.

3. Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday

Anchor, 1957.

4. Elliot, Emory., and Cathy N. Davidson, eds. The Columbia History of the American

Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

5. F.O. Matthiessen: American Renaissance; Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson

and Whitman. New York: Oxford U P, 1968

6. G. Marcus and W. Sollors, ed., A New Literary History of America (2009)

7. Jay Martin: Harvests of Change: American literature, 1865‐1914. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:

Prentice‐Hall,1967.

8. Kenneth M. Stampp. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865‐1877. (1965).

9. Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

New York: Oxford U P, 1999.

10. Leslie Fiedler: Love and Death in the American Novel. Normal, IL: Dalkey Press, 1998.

11. Myerson, Joel, ed. The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. New York:

Modern Language Association, 1984

12. Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwininsm in American Thought, Philadelphia, 1944.

Evaluation Pattern


Unit 1: Topics for Background Study

Unit 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya”, “Each and All”, “Brahma” and

Walt Whitman “One’s‐ Self I Sing”, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”

Unit 3: Herman Melville: Billy Budd

Unit 4: Dion Boucicault : The Octoroon

Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours

Internal Assessment (40 marks)




As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is

reflected in the time table of the department.

Paper VII: Semester II

Nineteenth Century American Literature


Objectives

To familiarize the learners of literature with the trends and movements of nineteenth

century American Literature.

To acquaint them with the socio‐cultural developments in the nineteenth century

America as seen through literary texts

To train them in knowing and talking about the thematic and stylistics of nineteenth

century American authors

To enable them to write position papers on American literature analyzing texts, authors,

themes and perspectives

Background Topics and Texts for Detailed Study

Unit 1: Topics for Background Study – Post Civil War Fiction, Revolt and Reform, Realism and

Literary Naturalism, the Romantic individualism, Regionalism, Southern Experience, Slavery

Abolition, Theatre before and after the Civil War, Growth of Short‐Fiction

Unit 2: Stephen Crane ‐“Black Riders Came from the Sea”“In the Desert”“Do Not Weep,

Maiden, for War is Kind” and

Bret Harte‐“Lines to a Portrait, by a Superior Person” “Mary’s Album”“Love and Physic”

Unit 3: Jack London: White Fang

Unit 4: Kate Chopin: “Beyond the Bayou” “The Locket”

Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion

1. Mark Twain ‐ Pudden’head Wilson

2. Kate Chopin ‐ the Stories of an Hour

3. Henry James – Art of Fiction

4. Theodor Dreiser – Letters to Women

5. Mark Twain: “Luck’ “A Mysterious Visit”

6. Stories by O Henry

7. Sinclair Upton: The Jungle

8. Stories by Jack London

9. Stephen Crane ‐ Maggie, a girl of Streets

10. George Washington Cable – The Negro Question

11. Charles Alexander Eastman – Indian Boyhood

12. The magazine novels of Pauline Hopkins

Recommended Reading

1. Bell, Michael Davitt. The Problem of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

2. Belluscio, Steven J. To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing.

Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2006.

3. Barrish, Phillip. American Literary Realism: Critical Theory and Intellectual Prestige,

1880‐1995. Cambridge: Oxford U P, 2001.

4. Charles C. Walcutt: American Literary Naturalism: The Divided Stream, Westport, CT:

Greenwood, 1975.

5. Jane Tompkins: Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790‐1860

New York: Oxford U P, 1989.

6. Joel Porte: The Romance in America. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University P, 1969.

7. June Howard: Form and History in American Naturalism. Chapel Hill: U of North

Carolina P, 1985.

8. Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the

Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 1955.

9. Pattee, Fred Lewis. The Development of the American Short Story. [1966] New York:

Harper, 1923.

10. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, ed.: American Realism and the Canon. Newark: U of

Delaware P, 1995.

11. Warren, Joyce W., ed. The (Other) American Tradition: Nineteenth‐Century Women

Writers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993

12. Winter, Molly Crumpton. American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of

Realism. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2007.

Evaluation Pattern


Unit 1: Topics for Background Study

Unit 2: Stephen Crane and Bret Harte

Unit 3: Jack London: White Fang

Unit 4: Kate Chopin: “Beyond the Bayou” “The Locket”

Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2

hours

Internal Assessment (40 marks) Class presentation: 20 Marks




As per UGC norms each paper has been assigned one hour of tutorial per week and this is

reflected in the time table of the department.

PAPER VII: Semester I

STUDIES ON INDIAN DIASPORIC FICTION


Objectives

To enable students to comprehend the historical, economicand political backdrop of the Indian

Diaspora and the contemporary global importance of this diaspora

To comprehend the differences between the different Indian diasporas ‐ colonial and

postcolonial, indentured and voluntary, labour and professional

To understand the movement of diaspora towards transnationalism and globalization;to

understand the relationship of diaspora towards globalization and transnationalism

To read Indian Diasporic Fiction against the backdrop of political, gender, racist, religious and

identity issues

To understand the postmodernist and postcolonial linguistic and formal innovations in the

Diasporic Indian Novel in English

Background Themes and Prescribed Texts:

UNIT I – Background Themes and Issues:

• The Historical, Socio‐political, Economic and Cultural Scenario: The history of the Indian diaspora

from the 1830s to the present day; the influence of diaspora on social, political, economic and

cultural structures; contemporary global economic, political and cultural importance of the Indian

Diaspora.

• Different Diasporas and Transnationalism/Globalisation: To understand the differences between

migrants and diasporics; to understand different diasporas ‐ the colonial and the postcolonial, the

indentured and the voluntary and the labour and the professional; movement from permanence of

the diaspora to the fluidity of the transnational and global; difference and similarities between the

two.

• Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Characteristic features of Indian Diasporic Literature in English –

nostalgia, pain, alienation and identification; issues of racism; literary innovations such as magic

realism; allegory, diasporic re‐possessions/re‐writings of history and the nation; outsider/insider

view on homeland and hostland; hybridity and hyphenation of identities.

UNIT 2– Salman Rushdie: The Ground Beneath Her Feet

UNIT3 – Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

UNIT4 –Amitav Ghosh: The Sea of Poppies


13. M.G. Vassanji: The In‐Between World of VikramLall

14. Rohinton Mistry: ‘Squatter’, ‘Swimming Lessons’, ‘Lead Kindly Light’, from Tales from

FirozshaBaag

15. Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine

16. V.S. Naipual: Half a Life

17. Uma Parmeswaran: Mango on the Maple Tree

18. Chitra Devakaruni Bannerjee: The Mistress of Spices

19. Jhumpa Lahiri: The Interpreter of Maladies

20. Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners

21. Amitav Ghosh :The River of Smoke

22. Vikram Seth: Two Lives

23. Kamala Markandaya: Bombay Tiger

24. Arvind Adiga: The White Tiger

Recommended Reading

1. Mishra Sudesh: Diaspora Criticism, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh,2006

2. Jain Ravindra K.: Nation, Diaspora, Trans‐Nation, Routledge, New Delhi, 2010

3. Motwani J.K., MahinGosine, J.B. Motwani (Eds.): Global Indian Diaspora: Yesterday, Today

and Tomorrow, Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin, New Delhi, 1993

4. Safran William, A.K. Sahoo, BrijLal (Eds.): Transnational Migrations: The Indian Diaspora,

Routledge, New Delhi, 2009

5. Knott Kim, Sean McLoughlin (Eds.): Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities, Rawat

Publications, Jaipur, 2011

6. Parmeswaran Uma: Writing the Diaspora, Essays on Culture and Identity, Rawat

Publications, Jaipur, 2007

7. Mishra Vijay: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorising the Diasporic Imaginary,

Routledge, New York, 2007

8. Jayaram N. (Ed.): Diversities in the Indian Diaspora: Nature, Implications and Responses,

Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011

9. Poros Maritsa V.: Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London,

Orient Black Swan, New Delhi, 2011

10. Gupta Surendra K., Indian Diaspora: Study of Emerging Sandwich Cultures, Atlantic, Chennai,

2013

11. Sahay Anjali: Indian Diaspora in the United States, Brain Drain or Gain?, Orient Black Swan,

Delhi, 2011

12. Cohen Robin: Global Diasporas, An Introduction, second edition, Routledge, Indian re‐print,

Noida, 2012

13. Blumer Martin and John Solomos (Eds.): Diasporas, Cultures and Identities, Routledge,

London and New York, 2012

14. Nieswand Boris: Theorising Transnational Migration: The Status Paradox of Migration,

Routledte, 2011

Evaluation Pattern



UNIT 2– Salman Rushdie: The Ground Beneath Her Feet

UNIT3 – Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

UNIT4 –Amitav Ghosh: The Sea of Poppies








PAPER VIII: Semester II

STUDIES ON INDIAN DIASPORIC CINEMA


Objectives

To enable students to comprehend Diasporic Indian Cinema in English against the backdrop

of South Asian/Black Cinema

To enable students to comprehend the issues of race, gender and identity in Diasporic

Indian Cinema in English

To enable students to understand concepts of cultural hybridity and multiculturalism, re‐

writing the nation, re‐possessing the canon , cinematic images and metaphors in Diasporic

Indian Cinema

Background Themes and Prescribed Texts:

UNIT 1 – Background Themes and Issues:

• South Asian/Black Cinema: Black /South Asian Cinema in Britain; Diasporic Indian cinema in the

USA; South Asian Cinema in Canada

• Issues of Race, Gender and Identity: Impact on Diasporic Indian Cinema of Gender issues; issues of

patriarchy and violence against women in diaspora; racism in Diasporic context and resistance to it;

hybridity and hyphenation of identity

• Cultural Hybridity, Multiculturalism, Re‐Writings, Re‐Possessions: Impact on Diasporic Indian

Cinema of hybridity and multiculturalism; re‐writings of the Nation; re‐possessions of the canon;

insider‐outsider views; cinematic images and metaphors

UNIT 2 – Deepa Mehta (Dir.): Hollywood Bollywood)

UNIT 3‐ Meera Nair (Dir.): The Namesake

UNIT 4 – Gurinder Chadha ( Dir.): Bend it Like Beckham

Cinematic Texts for Internal Assessment and Classroom Discussion:

13. Deepa Mehta (Dir.): The Elements Trilogy (Earth, Fire, Water)

14. Srinivas Krishna (Dir): Masala

15. Meera Nair (Dir.): Mississippi Masala

16. Gurinder Chadha (Dir): Bride and Prejudice

17. Nagesh Kuknoor (Dir.): Hyderabad Blues: A Homecoming

18. Kapadia Asif (Dir.): The Warrior

19. Meera Nair (Dir.): Monsoon Wedding

20. Deepa Mehta (Dir.): Heaven on Earth

21. Ali Kamzimi (Dir.): Continuous Journey

22. Eisha Marjara(Dir.):Desperately Seeking Helen

23. Jag Mundhra (Dir.): Provoked

24. Piyush Dinkar Pandya(Dir): American Desi

Recommended Reading

1. Desai Jigna: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film: Beyond Bollywood, Routledge,

New York and London, 2004

2. Roy Anjali Gera: Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond, Ashgate, Surrey, 2010

3. Alexander Karen: “Black British Cinema in the 90s: Going Going Gone”, British Cinema of the 90s,

Ed. Robert Murphy, British Film Institute, pp. 109‐14, 2000.

4. Jain Jasbir: Films, Literature and Culture: Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy, Rawat Publishers,

Jaipur, 2007

5. Bhattacharya Gargi and John Gabriel: “GurdinderChadha and the Apna Generation”, Third Text

27, (Summer1994), pp. 55‐63

6. Creed Barbara: “From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism”, Screen 28.2, pp. 47‐

67, 1987

7. Feng Peter X: “Fire: Reaction in India”,Zeitgiest Films, http//www.zeitgeistfilm.com/current/

fire/fireindianreaction.html, 11 November 2000

8. Foster Gwendolyn Audrey: Women Film makers of the African and South Asian Diaspora:

Decolonising the Gaze, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois UP, 1997

Evaluation Pattern



UNIT 2 – Deepa Mehta (Dir.): Hollywood Bollywood)

UNIT 3‐ Meera Nair (Dir.): The Namesake

UNIT 4 – Gurinder Chadha ( Dir.): Bend it Like Beckham

Students will be required to answer 4 questions ( with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2 hours.

Internal Assessment (40 marks) on cinematic texts listed for internal assessment






PAPER VII: Semester I The Structure of Modern English


Objectives

To familiarize students with key concepts in language study

To acquaint them with the levels of linguistic analysis

To give them practice in analyzing language at the Phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic and

discourse level

Unit 1: Orientation

• Human/Animal Communication

• Characteristic featuresand functions of human language

• Linguistics as scientific study of language

• Synchronic and Diachronic study of Language

• Branches of Linguistics

Unit 2: Sounds and Sound System

• Principle of complementary and contrastive distribution in the classification of speech sounds

• The structure of syllable andsyllabification

• Supra‐segmental properties: stress, rhythm and intonation

Unit 3: The Structure and Meaning of Words

• Morpheme and allomorph, Morpheme types, Morphological Processes

• Semantics and meaning, Types of Meaning

• Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, Prototypes

• Lexical relations: Homonymy, Homophony, Polysemy, Metonymy

Unit 4: The Structure of Sentence and Discourse

• Prescriptive Grammar and Descriptive Grammar

• Words and phrases and clauses: Form and Function

• The Simple Sentence

• The Concept of Discourse: Cohesion, Coherence and Deixis

Essential Reading:

1. Aitchison, Jean (2004) Teach Yourself Linguistics. McGraw‐Hill Companies.

2. Balasubramaniam, T. (1981)A Text book of English Phonetics for Indian Students.

Macmillan.

3. Brown, G. and G. Yule (1983)Discourse Analysis. CUP.

4. Carstairs‐McCarthy, Andrew (2002) An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh

University Press.

5. Halliday, M.A.K. and R. Hasan (1976) Cohesion in English. Longman.

6. Leech, G., M. Deuchar and R. Hoogenraad (1982) English Grammar for Today.

Macmillan.

7. Lyons, J. (1977) Semantics, Vols. 1 & 2.CUP.

8. Quirk, R and S. Greenbaum (1973) A University Grammar of English. Longman.

9. Trask, R. L. (2003)Language: The Basics. Routledge.

Recommended Reading

1) Aitchison, Jean (1983) The Articulate Mammal. Routledge.

2) Baker, C.L (1995) English Syntax. The MIT Press.

3) Bansal, R. K. and J. B. Harrison (1972)Spoken English for India. Orient Longman.

4) Berk, Lynn. M (1999) English Syntax. OUP.

5) Crystal, David (1980 rpt. 1995)Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Blackwell.

6) Crystal, David (1987) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. CUP.

7) Freeborn, D. (1996) Style: Text Analysis and Linguistic Criticism, London: Macmillan.

8) Halliday, M.A.K. (1978) Language as Social Semiotic: the social interpretation of language

and meaning. Edward Arnold.

9) Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2005) A Student's Introduction to English

Grammar. CUP.

10) Jones, Daniel (1972) An Outline of English Phonetics. CUP.

11) Lyons, J. (1981)Language, Meaning and Context. CUP.

12) Meyer, Charles (2002) English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. CUP.

13) Saussure, Ferdinand De (1974) Course in General Linguistics (with introduction by

Jonathan Culler). Collins.

14) Trask, R.L (0000) Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics. Routledge.

15) Yule, George (2006). The Study of Language: An Introduction. CUP.

Please Note: Besides the given list, relevant articles & research papers, videos from the online sources

and journals also may be included to acquaint students to the current trends and issues.

Evaluation Pattern


Q.1. Application based Question (5/7) (on Unit 2,3 and 4)

Q.2.Short Notes (in 150 words) (4/5) (on Unit 1, 2,3 and 4)

Q.3. Long Answer (in 500 words) (1/2) (on Unit 1 and 2)

Q.4 Long Answer(in 500 words) (1/2) (on Unit 3 and 4)

Students will be required to answer 4 questions (with internal options) of 15 marks each in 2

hours.


On Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4

20 Marks Written Assignment

10 Marks Oral Presentation (Student Seminar)

10 Marks Regularity and Participation(tutorials)

Please Note: Tutorials, oral presentation and written assignment will be application oriented.



PAPER VIII: Semester II The Study of Language Use and Variation


Objectives

To acquaint students with the basic concepts in language use and give them practice in the

application of these concepts

To familiarize them with key concepts in the study of variation in English

To Focus on a wide range of variation in English (according to the use and the user) and encourage

students to conduct fieldwork and to analyze linguistic corpora

To make them aware of current issues associated with the variation of English

Unit 1: Language in Use

• Basic Concepts: Speech Acts, Speech Situation and Speech Event, Presuppositions and

Implicatures, Turn Taking and Adjacency Pairs

• Conversational Principles: Politeness in Conversation, Maxims of Politeness Principle,

Co‐operation in Conversation: Maxims of Co‐operative Principle, Observation and

Violation of CP and PP in Conversation

• Application of these concepts through Fieldwork and analysis oflinguistic corpora in

English

Unit 2: Variation in English according to Use

• Genre

• Style

• Register

• Fieldwork and analysis of linguistic corpora in English

Unit 3: Variation According to User

• Idiolect, Regional Dialects and the question of Standard

• Multilingualism,Plurilingualism, Code‐Switching, Code‐ Mixing

• World/New Englishes

• Non Native Englishes: Nativization and Standardization

• Asian Englishes e.g. Sri Lankan English, Hong Kong English

• The state of Indian English: Past, Present and Future

Unit 4: Present status and the Future of English

• Globalization of English

• English in the era of media and Cyber Age

• World Standard Spoken English: Fact or Fiction?

• The Future of englishes

Essential Reading:

1) Archer,Dawn et al (2012)Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book for Students.

Routledge.

2) Douglas and Susan Conrad (2009) Register, Genre, and Style.CUP.

3) Bauer, Laurie (2002) An Introduction to International varieties of English. Edinburgh

University Press.

4) Bolton, Kingsley and Braj Kachru (eds) (2007) Asian Englishes. Routledge.

5) Crystal David (1998) “'The future of English” in D. Lynch & A. Pilbeam (eds),

Heritage and Progress, Proceedings of the SIETAR Europa Congress 1998 (Bath: LTS

Training and Consulting, 2000)

6) Crystal, David (2005) 2nd edn. English as a Global Language. CUP.

7) Kachru, B. B. (1983)The Indianization of English: The English Language in India. OUP.

8) Leech, G. N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. Longman.

9) Maguire, Warren & April McMahan eds. (2011) Analyzing Variation in English. CUP.

10) Jenkins, Jennifer (2012) 2nd ed. World Englishes. Routledge. (Special Indian Edition)

11) Schneider, Edger (2010) English Around the World: An Introduction. CUP.

12) Spolsky, Bernard (1998) Sociolinguistics. OUP.

13) Strevens,Peter (1977) New Orientations in the Teaching of English. OUP.

14) Trudgill, P. (1992) Introducing language and society. Penguin.

15) Trudgill, Peter. (1999) "Standard English: what it isn't" In T. Bex& R.J. Watts (eds)

Standard English: The Widening Debate. pp. 117‐128. London: Routledge.

Recommended Reading

1) Cheshire, Jenny (1991) English Around the World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. CUP.

2) Crystal, David and Derek Davy (1969) Investigating English Style. Longman.

3) Gordoll, David (1997) The Future of English. The British Council.

4) Hogg, R.M. (gen. ed.) (1992‐2001)The Cambridge History of the English Language. 6

volumes. CUP.

5) Hudson, R. A. (2003) Sociolinguistics. CUP.

6) Krishnaswamy, N. &Burde, A. S. (1998) The politics of Indians' English: Linguistic

colonialism and the expanding English empire. OUP.

7) Kachru, B. B. (1986) The Alchemy of English: The spread, functions and models of non‐

native Englishes. OUP.

8) Kortmann, Bernd and Edgar Schneider (2004) A Handbook of Varieties of English: A

Multimedia Reference Tool. De Gruyter.

9) Lange, Claudia (2012) The Syntax of Spoken Indian English. John Benjamins Publishing

Company.

10) Levinson, S. C. (1983) Pragmatics. CUP.

11) Melchers, G & P. Shaw (2003)World Englishes.OUP.

12) Meyer, Charles (2009) Introduction to English Linguistics. University of Massachusetts.

13) Meyer, Charles (2002) English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction. CUP.

14) Svartvik, Jan & Leech, Geoffrey (2006) English. One Tongue, Many Voices. Basingstoke,

Hants: Palgrave Macmillan.

15) Trudgill, Peter & Hannah, Jean (2002) 4th edn. International English: A Guide to Varieties

of Standard English.

16) Yule, George (1996) Pragmatics. OUP.

Please Note: Besides the given list, relevant articles &research papers, videos from the online

sources and journals also may be included to acquaint students to the current trends and issues.

Evaluation Pattern


Q.1. Application based Question (5/7) (on Unit 1, 2 & 3)

Q.2.Short Notes (in 150 words) (4/5) (on Unit 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Q.3. Long Answer (in 500 words) (1/2) (on Unit 1 and 2)

Q.4 Long Answer (in 500 words) (1/2) (on Unit 3 & 4)



On Unit 1, 2 and Unit 3 (Asian Englishes)

20 Marks Written Assignment

10 Marks Oral Presentation

10 Marks Regularity and Participation(tutorials)

Please Note: Tutorials, oral presentation and written assignment will be application/fieldwork oriented.



Paper VII: Semester I AFRICAN LITERATURE


Objectives

To introduce students to the complexity and variety of literature being produced in the African

continent

To encourage an engagement with traditional and contemporary literary traditions in African

literature

To enable students to explore issues of identity, displacement, violence, gender, nationalism and

ethnicity in African literature


UNIT 1– Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

UNIT 2– Wole Soyinka, A Shuttle in the Crypt

UNIT 3– Nuruddin Farah, Maps

UNIT 4– Ama Ata Aidoo, Anowa


1. Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit

2. Wole Soyinka, The King and the Horseman

3. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Petals of Blood

3. Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather

4. Buchi Emecheta, Joys of Motherhood

5. Ben Okri, The Famished Road

6. J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace

7. Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

8. Ayi Kwei Armah, Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa Past, Present and the Future

9. Aminatta Forma, The Memory of Love

10. Athol Fugard, Sizwe Bansi is Dead

11. Chimamanda Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

12. Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter

Recommended Reading

1. Barnard, Rita. Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place. Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2007.

2. Dhlomo, H. I. E. 'African Drama and Poetry'. English in Africa. Vol. 4 No. 2, September 1977.

3. Emenyonu, Ernest N. Ed. New Directions in African Literature. Oxford: James Currey, 2006.

4. Gibbs, James. Eds. Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Washington: Three Continents Press,

1980.

5. Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Cambridge Studies in African and Carribean Literatures.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

6. Gikandi, Simon. Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction. Portsmouth:

Heinemann, 1991.

7. Irele, F. Abiola. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2009.

8. Jeyifo, Biodun, ed. Modern African Drama: Backgrounds and Criticism. Norton, 2002.

9. Killiam, Douglas and Ruth Rowe. Eds. The Companion to African Literatures. Oxford: J. Currey,

2000.

10. Nnaemaka, Obioma. 'From Orality to Writng: African Women Writers and the (Re)inscription of

Womanhood'. Research in African Literatures Vol. 25 No. 4, Winter 1994.

11. Ojaide, Tanure. 'New Trends in Modern African Poetry'. Research in African Literatures Vol. 26

No, 1, Spring 1995.

12. Roscoe, Adrian. African Literature: East to South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

13. Stratton, Florence. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender. London:

Routledge, 1994.

14. Woods, Tim. African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures. Manchester: Manchester

University Press, 2007

15. Wylie, Hal and Bernth Lindfors. Eds. Multiculturalism and Hybridity in African Literatures. Africa

World Press, 2000.

Evaluation Pattern


Unit I ‐ Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

Unit II ‐ Wole Soyinka, A Shuttle in the Crypt

Unit III ‐ Nuruddin Farah, Maps

Unit IV ‐ Ama Ata Aidoo, Anowa








Paper VIII: Semester II LITERATURE OF THE CARIBBEAN


Objectives

To introduce students to the complexity and variety of literature being produced in the Caribbean

To encourage students to engage with the traditional and contemporary literary traditions in

Caribbean literature

To enable students to understand the issues of identity, diaspora, race, gender and ethnicity as

they play themselves out in the literature of the Caribbean


UNIT 1– Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

UNIT 2– Derek Walcott, Pantomime

UNIT 3 – Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Masks

UNIT 4 – Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!


1. George Lamming, In the Castle of my Skin

2. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

3. V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas

2. Derek Walcott, Omeros

3. Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

3. Lorna Goodison, I am Becoming a Mother

4. Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist’s Tale

5. Maryse Conde, Tales from the Heart: True Stories from my Childhood

6. Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe

7. Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones

8. David Dabydeen, The Intended

9. Earl Lovelace, Salt

10. Cyril Dabydeen, Drums of my Flesh

11. Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge

Recommended Reading

1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. Ed. The Empire Writes Back. New York: Routledge.

1994.

2. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. Ed. The Postcolonial Studies Reader. New York:

Routledge. 2006. 1995.

3. Bloom, Harold. Ed. Caribbean women Writers. Philadelphia: Chelsea. 1997.

4. Donnel, Alison and Sarah Lawson‐Welsh. Eds. The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature.

1996.

5. King, Bruce. Ed. West Indian Literature. Macmillan educational. 1995.

6. Ramchand, Kenneth. The West Indian Novel and its Background. Heinemann. 1983.

7. Dabydeen, David and N. Wilson‐Tagoe. A Reader’s Guide to West Indian and Black British

Literature. Rutherford Press. 1987.

8. Donnell, Alison. Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone History.

New York: Routledge. 2006.

9. Dash, J. Michael. The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context. Virginia:

University of Virginia Press. 1998.

10. Arnold, A. James. Ed. A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Cross cultural Studies Volume 3.

Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. 1997.

11. Mahabir, Joy and Mariam Pirbhai. Eds. Critical Perspectives on Indo‐Canadian Women’s Caribbean

Literature. New York: Routledge. 2013.

12. Joseph, Margaret Paul. Caliban in exile: the Outsider in Caribbean Literature. Westport:

Greenwood Press. 1992.

13. Breiner, Laurence A. An Introduction to West Indian Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. 1998.

14. Bucknor, Michael Andrew and Alison Donnell. Eds. The Routledge Companion to Anglophone

Caribbean Literature. New York: Routledge. 2011.

15. Hall, Stuart. “Cultural identity and Diaspora”. Colonial Discourse and Post‐colonial Theory: A

Reader. Eds. Patrick Williams and Chrisman. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf. 1994.

Evaluation Pattern


UNIT 1– Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

UNIT 2– Derek Walcott, Pantomime

UNIT 3 – Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Masks

UNIT 4 – Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!








Documents

PURROSE OF THE M.A. HONOURS AND THE …results.mu.ac.in/syllabus/4.36 M.A. English Hons part I.pdf2. R.K. Narayan: The World of Nagaraj 3. Shashi Deshpande: In the Country of Deceit